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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:15:03 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters
Message-ID:  <20141014091503.GA1481@unixarea.DDR.dd>
In-Reply-To: <1413274782325-5956648.post@n5.nabble.com>
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El día Tuesday, October 14, 2014 a las 01:19:42AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió:

> Enscript does not support UTF-8 formatted text files, so it's not usable in
> this case.
> 
> One solution, "is to use paps, instead of Enscript, for converting UTF-8
> encoded text to PostScript."
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/enscript.html
> 
> ...

We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; this
has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text (only) and
prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly.

We have a special enhancement of the used fonts to support most EU
languages.

HIH

	matthias

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